Saturday, January 31, 2015

MARK HALPERIN IS INCAPABLE OF SHAME

Several media outlets on Friday were forced to walk back articles announcing a definite presidential run by Mitt Romney for 2016.

The spark began with Bloomberg News, which published a scoop early Friday morning by Mark Halperin reporting that Romney would declare his intentions about whether to run. That of course turned out to be accurate.

After Romney announced he was running, Rick Massimo wrote this in my comments:

I'd really like to know how Mark Halperin spent his day. If he has any self-respect, or even pretensions at being a journalist, he'd have spent the day (and the next couple of days) calling (or better yet barging past the secretaries of) the sources for his original story and saying, in different combinations, "What the fuck?!" "I hope you don't think I'm ever quoting YOU again" and "You think I don't have other sources, some of whom have some pretty uncomplimentary shit to say about YOU?!"

But who am I kidding? He wrote what they told him. Next week, he'll write what they tell him again.

I would have severed all lines of communication, at least for the weekend, and either crawled into bed or started drinking heavily. But Rick's suggestion is very good.

6 comments:

Halperin, and douches like him, can't afford shame. They would never leave their house. The lack of shame is their super power enabling them to be perpetual purveyors of wrongness. How could you be Mark Halperin or Bill Kristol and have shame? It just wouldn't work.